I know my mom didn’t have the back door locked one afternoon in the early 50’s, when some punk neighborhood kid opened the door and tossed an apple core at her.

I was only about 3 but I beat the hell outta him and then tossed his corpse over the porch railing. . . . now back to reality. . . I think my parents might have implemented a locked door policy after that but unfortunately neither of them are any longer available to verify that.

@Brian1946 – LOL! Seriously?! Some stranger came in there and just threw an apple core at her?? If those are the kinds of criminals ya’ll have in Canada that’s even more reason for me to more there, haha. :)

I’m from Montreal. With our door it doesn’t have a knob, we insert the key and turn it and the door opens. The button on the handle has been broken for as long as I can remember. I always have a key on me. But we also have a little button on then side of our door and if it’s in then it will open from the inside but not the outside and if it’s out then you can open it easily.

We also have an alarm system that makes a little beeping noise next to the door and in my parents room whenever a door or window is opened.